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Joseph-Laurent Malaine

1745–1809 · Flower painting and designs for tapestry, wallpaper and textiles

Joseph-Laurent Malaine (1745–1809) was a flower painter from Tournai who worked as a flower painter at the Gobelins manufactory in Paris and later designed wallpapers and printed textiles for manufacturers in Alsace. The Joseph Clark Collection holds a still life attributed to his circle, not to Malaine himself.

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About the artist

Joseph-Laurent Malaine was born in Tournai, then in the Austrian Netherlands, on 21 February 1745, and trained there under his father, the flower painter Régnier Joseph Malaine (Wikipedia). In 1773 he showed two paintings of flowers in vases at the first Lille Salon des Arts (Wikipedia).

In 1784 or 1786 he succeeded Maurice Jacques as flower painter at the Gobelins manufactory, where he and his workshop designed cartoons for tapestry seat covers; 28 of his cartoons are kept at the Mobilier National (Wikipedia). From the early 1790s he also designed wallpapers and printed textiles, working for manufacturers in Mulhouse, Thann and Rixheim (Wikipedia). He exhibited at the Salon from 1791 to 1808, mostly bouquets of flowers in vases set on ledges, and died in Paris on 5 May 1809; the Museo del Prado holds two of his paintings (Wikipedia).

The Joseph Clark Collection's Still Life of Roses, Lilac, and Other Flowers in a Vase on a Stone Ledge, an oil on canvas, is attributed to the circle of Joseph-Laurent Malaine, not to Malaine himself (Joseph Clark Collection).

Sources

  1. Wikipedia
  2. Wikidata
  3. Joseph Clark Collection

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